Hi-End Synthesizer Special – from Synclavier, ConBrio to GDS/Synergy to Fairlight

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– New England Digital – Synclavier..

read the manual „why a synclavier has no midi“ ;-)) hi end FM and sampling station, better run it with a 68k vintage mac for editing..

it does Resynthesis, 12 OSCs with additiv Spectrum per OSC, FM but with one modulating and one carrier each, multiple additiv waves can be morhed into another that appear on a sort of a time line/linear envelope (just time between those additive spectra oscs) – 4 sample OSC/Timbres- > sampling is possible on this machine.

you may have heard one @ depeche mode, kraftwerk or other ,even non-electronic-sounding groups/musicians like Zappa and Prince or Michael Jackson. it’s far beyond the capabilities of a fairlight!

– Fairlight CMI

cmi – computer music instrument.

more known but could do only samples.

this machine was (maybe) the most expensive (digital) gear in the 80ies. 0.5secs samples, additive and resynthesis (no, it’s NOT like the k5000 and the cube.. but maybe inspired) – it’s just a sampler, after this PCM sampling like in the korg M1 and D50 samples became very popular..

by Axel Hartmann – programmed by Stefan „prosoniq“ Bernsee neuronal synth – has 13 special parameters and morphs 2 samples into another seamlessly. completely digital – basically this is a standard Linux computer, like Korgs Oasys.

– Yamaha VP1

VL: the more affordable physical modeling Synth

in it’s V2.0 .. you have access to a load of parameters – resonating delays and lots more that form that simulation of classic acoustic instruments – the more interesting part (with V2) was, to stretch those parameter ranges which was in a time of digital synths simulating analog synths just starting to become popular, so the VL has not had a good standing and wasn’t sold that often!..

it is – mono- / duophonic the Yamaha VL1 – physical modelling for the masses. still quite rare: there are 3 versions:

-the vl7 – monophonic the downsized version vl70m or the vl module that can be found in some yamaha mu modules and as a module to slot into their bigger newer workstations.the vl70m is NOT the same as the vl1/7 series and also sounds „weaker“. and the FX are also downsized.

just to mention -> no synth – just acontroller DX7 – Programmer by Jellinghaus this is the full knobbed DX7 only 25 were made in the mid. 80ies. this one simply sends SysEx Strings via Midi. so one can connect any DX7,TX7 or TF modules of a TX816..more on yamaha fm synthesizers, dx5,dx7 etc.. here

– WALDORF WAVE

want a closeup movie? film1 (movie)film2 (movie2)more on waldorf in the waldorf menu! englishgerman/deutsch this one has analog filters, but it’s digital part is a child of the well known PPG System (Palm Products Germany by Wolfgang Palm) which works with a set of waveforms that can be changed, called a Wavetable – smoother interpolations can be made by not using all 60 (later 128 at Waldorf) waves in a table – the Wave can even analyse audio to create wavetables but needs an external software – but it can do algorithmic FM, PWM and more called UPAW that can be created directly on the synth itself. -> 8x Multi Timbral, 16 Voice, (1994) WaldorfWave Hybrid Synthesizer 2 OSC, 2 Filter, 2 LFO, 4 EG Hybrid wavetable digital synthesis, 61 Keys, velocity aftertouch MIDI sysex Ctrl,~4000€ (in 2005) continue / weiter..?

never seen that one – and looks like it was to pricey to be released or sold, so the well known computer had to come and it was sooo cheap, remember the price? so – this one must be „§$%& unaffordable.

multitimbral and 16 OP Oscillators, seems like it was spotted on a vintage computer (!) festival.Possibly this one is owned by Brian „Moog Cookbook“ Kehew (was posted on the blogs earlier and I am sure Matrix has a post on this, too)..

Ah, and there’s an Altair on that page, too..

Brian Kehew has some Con Brio Sounds up. Con Brio is a very rare digital Synth. Of course at Matrix Con Brio